The slowest ‘cosmic lighthouse’ ever found challenges our understanding of how neutron stars work.
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By searching sparsely populated regions of the galaxy, astronomers have for the first time found the source of a kind of signal that has puzzled them for years.
A slowly flickering source of radio waves that changes over time might be a neutron star or a white dwarf – but its behaviour doesn’t quite fit any of our theories.
Floating crystals can pause the stellar aging process, providing a final energy source to otherwise dead stars.
Our Sun will likely go out quietly – but not all such stars do. A new radio detection of a supernova can help us better understand these cosmic cataclysms.
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